Errors Of Seventh-day Adventism - The SDA
By Abraham Israel
I have been asked about SDA from a evangelical believer who wanted to know about their belief, because her friend being a SDA was trying to convince her that only Seventh Day Adventist are the true believers of Christianity. One of the main things she wanted to know was about the Sabbath, the lack of celebration of Christmas and Easter which was forbidden in it, and then about the end time doctrine which her friend shared through a PDF file to make her understand and was trying to convince her about their belief as the only truth.
Many SDAs are trying to gain acceptance as part of the orthodox Bible based Christian community, and even want to marry other Christians who are in Evangelical and Pentecostal denominations if they are willing to accept their cultic dogma. Some even disregarding their own belief, want to mix in with the other Christian orthodox culture not knowing whether they themselves are born again, or someone they are looking to marry is born again or not. I would suggest the real born again girls and boys (John 3:5), to understand that they as believers in Christ Jesus should look for only another born again partner as according to the Word of God (2 Cor 6:14), so that they in their married life can bring up a family which will glorify God and be led by the faith that has been passed on to us from our Lord Jesus Christ, apostles and all the men and women of God in between them and us in our generation (1 Tim 4:16; Acts 14:22; Deut 4:9). It is like a Olympic baton with fire that was passed on from Jesus to us in this generation, it should be carried on by each successive generations to keep the faith and reach the heaven's shore according to the promises we have received from God in Christ Jesus (1 Peter 1:8-9; 2 Peter 1:1-4, 16-21; 2 Tim 2:15; 3:14-17; 4:2-4; 1 Tim 4:13, 16; 5:12). However, the following points show that the SDA's do not hold the "the faith which was once for all to delivered to the saints." (Jude 1:3).
These false doctrines of Seventh-day Adventism are a clear warning to people, to not to join up with SDAs, or leave the SDA if they are already involved in it by being a part of it.
1. THE SABBATH
Seventh-day Adventists believe church co-founder Ellen G. White (1827–1915) was inspired by God as a prophet, she claims that on December 25, 1865, that she was shown a extra-biblical revelation that there has been too much slackness in regard to the observance of the Sabbath and therefore from that time onward SDA's insist that we must keep the Sabbath on Saturday as a day of worship. This is wrong because:
a) The New Testament never commands Christians to worship or meet on the Saturday Sabbath, as we all know that the apostles being Jewish were the foremost observers of the Saturday Sabbath before the Church came in to existence, but the only important commandment that is not repeated from the Old Testament is the observance of Sabbath, and God did it intentionally in revealing to them of how the external Sabbath in the Old Testament have become an internal perpetual Sabbath rest for Christians (Heb 3:14; 4:2-3, 5-6, 9-10, 11; Matt 11:28-30). So what is the Sabbath rest for a Christian? Not even keeping Sabbath day as a law on Sunday, but rather it is coming to Jesus by faith to find rest in Him and be pleasing to God apart from keeping the law legalistically from the Book of the Bible from our soul and memory, but rather keep it from the spirit of the human heart in which the Spirit of God writes the same law within and helps us keep it by the righteousness of faith because the work has already been finished from the foundation of the world by Jesus Christ (Heb 4:3; Rev 13:8). Instead, Christians are recorded as meeting on the first day of the week, which is Sunday for fellowship and edification looking towards the Day of Rapture (Heb 10:25), in the following Bible passages:
1. We see in 1 Corinthians 16:1-2 -- Paul the apostle said, "Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: 2 On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come." So we know that from the apostolic days Sunday was the first day and was a holiday for the whole of Roman Empire, and thus offering of the Churches from their gathering was taken on that day.
2. Acts 20:7 -- Paul preached to Christians at Troas whose habit as usual was to meet on the first day of the week which was Sunday, to break bread and have communion on that day of the assembly of saints.
3. John 20:19, 26 -- Jesus, after His resurrection met with the disciples on the first day of the week which was a Sunday.
4. Romans 14:5-6 -- Paul, when discussing which day to meet, did not say that you must meet on the Saturday Sabbath (as SDAs say), or even on Sunday as legalistic Christians say, but he said "Let every man be fully convinced in his own mind [about keeping Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday or Internally all the time]. Whether one observes externally a Sabbath or does not, he observes or does not observe to the Lord." In other words, Paul says whether we observe a Sabbath externally or not, we wholly and internally belong to the Lord who has bought us for Himself through His life, death and resurrection, and therefore by faith and obedience mixed with patience should observe the Sabbath rest on the inside of us all the time (Heb 4:2; 10:36). No one has to teach a Christian believer, what to do and what not to do because the Holy Spirit does it all the time 24/7/365, until the end of their lives on earth (1 John 2:20, 27; John 14:26; Heb 10:15-18; 8:11, 12; Eph 4:32).
5. Colossians 2:16-17 -- "Let no one judge you in ... feast days or Sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come but the reality of its fulfillment is in the body of Christ," who became a substitutional sacrifice on behalf of us before God to forgive us of our sins and thus fulfill the food, drink, feasts days or sabbaths of Old Testament laws and traditions.
SDAs judge Christians wrong who keep the assembly of saints on a Sunday to consider it as a holy day. Paul says that SDAs are wrong to judge Christians for not keeping Saturday as a holy day.
b) SDAs claim that the Roman Catholic church after Constantine in 320 AD changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. This is completely false, because we have at least ten quotes from major church writers from 90 -- 500 AD who all say that the practice of Christians everywhere was to meet on Sunday, not the Jewish Saturday Sabbath. Like we see in this following 90 A.D. DIDACHE which says: "Christian Assembly on the Lord's Day: 1. But every Lord's day do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. 2. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned. 3. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord: In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice; for I am a great King, saith the Lord, and my name is wonderful among the nations." (Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, Chapter XIV). SDAs have no early quotes to show that early Christians met on Saturday and not on Sunday.
2. SOUL SLEEP
SDAs deny that believers on death go to heaven. They say that believers go to soul sleep in the grave until Christ's return. JW's, Christadelphians and other false groups also believe this error. But there are some minute differences between them, while Jehovah's Witnesses teach "soul annihilation," which means when we die, the soul ceases to exist, and the redeemed will have their soul recreated at the future resurrection. Seventh-day Adventists teach true "soul sleep," meaning after death believers are not conscious of anything and their souls become completely inert or lacking the ability or strength to move until the time of the final resurrection of the dead. During this period of soul sleep, the soul resides in the memory of God. While they take out of context verse like Ecclesiastes 9:5 and 12:7 from the Old Testament, to read in to the Scripture what they want it to speak rather than what it really says to defend the doctrine of soul sleep. Thus they come to deny the Scripture that says and affirms that soul and spirit are inseparable, but only through the Word of God which make us conscious of our spirit within which gets born again from heaven above when we are saved, and become God-conscious of the Creator God who watches over us deep in to our soul and spirit, to whom we all have to give account of our life on the judgment day whether we have done good or bad (Heb 4:12-13; Acts 24:14-16, 24-25; 26:20-23, 27-28, 29).
The main verses disproving the soul sleep error are:
1. Philippians 1:23 -- "For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and BE WITH CHRIST, which is far better."
2. 2 Corinthians 5:8 -- "We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be ABSENT FROM THE BODY (i.e. after death) and to BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD." ((i.e.) in heaven).
3. Hebrews 12:1 -- "Therefore we also, since we are SURROUNDED BY so great a CLOUD OF WITNESSES." ((i.e.) The departed believers of the Old Testament time who were discussed in Hebrews 11 were residing in heaven and watching all of us believers of the New Testament who are in the race of faith).
4. Hebrews 12:23 -- "TO THE general assembly and CHURCH of the firstborn who are registered IN HEAVEN, to God the Judge of all, to THE SPIRITS OF JUST MEN made perfect."
5. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 -- "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so GOD WILL BRING WITH HIM THOSE who sleep in Jesus." (This means that if we are believers, when Christ returns to resurrect believer's bodies at the time of Rapture, He will bring with Him all the believers spirits and souls who have already died on earth).
6. Revelation 6:9-10 -- "9 When He opened the fifth seal, I SAW UNDER THE ALTAR (in heaven) THE SOULS OF THOSE who had been SLAIN for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. 10 And THEY CRIED with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”"
7. Isaiah 14:9-10 -- "9“HELL from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; It STIRS UP THE DEAD for you, all the chief ones of the earth; It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 THEY SHALL SPEAK AND SAY TO YOU: ‘ Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us?"
8. Ezekiel 32:21 -- "21 THE STRONG among the mighty SHALL SPEAK TO HIM OUT OF THE MIDST OF HELL with those who help him: ‘They have gone down, they lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’"
9. Ezekiel 32:30-31 -- "THE ZIDONIANS which are gone down with the slain ... PHARAOH SHALL SEE THEM and shall be comforted, even PHARAOH AND ALL HIS ARMY SLAIN BY THE SWORD."
10. Luke 16:19-31 -- The rich man and Lazarus who had died spoke to each other in Hades.
These 9 scriptures show soul sleep of SDAs to be false.
3. CHRIST
Mrs. White said: "Christ took upon His sinless nature our sinful nature. Christ took our nature and it's deteriorating condition." (Q.D. p.654-656).
According to White and SDAs, Christ acquired a sinful nature. This is false. Christ had a sinless human nature and that is the reason Jesus was among sinners and yet without sin (John 8:46; Heb 4:15). In his spirit, he was still God and had never ceased to be the God that He already is, yes, the baby Jesus was born a human, but the Son was given from heaven who resided in that body without the glory of heaven which He left in heaven to become a Son of man, meaning simply a human like any other (Isa 9:6; John 8:58; Php 2:5-8). We must understand that the nature we bear is called "sinful flesh" or more briefly, 'sin' in our soul (Rom. 7:20 and 8:4), and our body of flesh works according to our souls desire after the fall of man (Luke 12:19), the body in itself is a neutral thing which is neither good nor bad, but is a dust suit that we need to live in this earth as humans. Christ took our sin punishment in his body, not our sin nature, that is why the Bible emphasizes that Christ came in the "likeness of sinful flesh" which means exactly like in the form of sinful human with human dust suit over Him (Rom. 8:3-4), that is why as a perfect human before God He was able to offer his sinless soul as a offering to God for the forgiveness of our sins (Isa 53:5, 10; John 19:30).
Even the cult of Christadelphians have done the same mistake of taking that verse "Jesus came in the "likeness" of sinful flesh" (Rom 8:3-4), as that which "He came in sinful flesh". In other words, instead of saying, Jesus became in his body just like the sinful humans made of dust, they have wrongly interpreted it as, Jesus came with the sin nature like that of humans. It is a serious mistake which actually denies the very Divinity and Godhead nature of Jesus and is a heresy and blasphemy that should be avoided and spoken against. Only Satan will try to touch the Godhood of Jesus because he is liar from the beginning and does not stand in the truth of God's word (John 8:44; 1 John 3:8; Gen 3:1-5). So stay away from the cults like SDA and other offshoots like these that deny the Godhood of Jesus.
In what way did Jesus actually carry our sins, read my following post to find the depth of it: http://www.apostolicrevelation.info/2009/07/sit-walk-and-stand-part-3.html#Div1
4. LOSS OF SALVATION
"Now while our Great High Priest is making atonement for us, we should seek to become perfect in Christ." (The Great Controversy, E.G. White, 1911, p. 623).
SDAs teach that though saved by grace (Eph 2:8), we are kept saved by keeping the Law. This is partial atonement. In other words, it means Jesus Christ saves us, but we have to keep ourselves in that saved state with our works or else we might end up in hell fire because of our spiritual lethargy and sluggishness. Therefore, to stay saved according to SDAs, we must continue to keep the Sabbath, the 10 Commandments and pay the tithe. So Grace plus Works saves us ultimately at the end of it all.
This is absolutely against the very salvation and eternal life which is given as a gift of God, so that no human can boast before God (Eph 2:8-9). Some of the Jews who accepted Christ as their Savior, were misled by the same kind of religious Jews of the first century in Galatia, and they were rebuked by apostle Paul who was the one who helped them get saved. Then he asked them saying, "2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? 5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—They that believe are justified 6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham." (Gal 3:2-7).
In other words, the plain reasoning of Paul the apostle was, if you were saved by faith, then you are kept saved by that same faith which God has given to you as a gift. If in case, you get deceived to start to work to keep that salvation intact, all your works does become dead works before God as you are trying to be made perfect by the flesh, even though God has agreed to save you to perfection by His Spirit (Php 1:6). So the works that can be done to get reward for eternity and bring Glory to God now on earth were made to become dead before God because according to God, "to him who works, the wages are nor counted as grace, but as debt." (Rom 4:4), what a waste of time after salvation to work the dead works which has no reward in eternity at all (Heb 6:1), and what a insult to God to indirectly say to Him that though He had saved us through Jesus Christ, but He does not have the strength to complete the salvation which He has started in us who were saved? Paul is saying, salvation is a miracle from the start to the end which happens on the day of Jesus Christ during Rapture, which is worked out by the Spirit of God day in and day out. Paul further does his reasoning to find the truth by asking, 'Did you get saved by the Spirit of God by your works or the hearing of faith? Abraham our father of faith got saved by faith and thus received God's righteousness to live a saved life. Likewise, only if you are saved by faith, you can live righteously with God's righteousness as the sons of Abraham.'
So saints, beware of those who might deceive you from eternal reward by their deception (Col 2:20-23), these 'do's and dont's of the law' are just a shadow in the Old Testament which was revealed by God a little bit to give a hint about what the coming Christ had fulfilled it in His first coming to earth, and who will fulfill it all to the end at the time of His second coming to the earth, but the ultimate substance of all of it is in Christ Himself (Col 2:17). Run away from cultic SDA like wayward group of people who can mislead a true saint by their false doctrine. Praise the Lord!
5. INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT
Investigative judgment means no assurance of salvation. According to SDAs, beginning on October 22, 1844, Christ entered upon the "judgment phase" of His ministry, whereby He blots out sin. The SDA "Investigative Judgment" doctrine rests on Ellen White's claimed revelation that Christ entered the Holy of Holies not at His ascension, but in 1844 (The Great Controversy, p.362-373).
Hebrews 9:12 contradicts White's theory: "Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered (past tense) the Most Holy Place once (not in 1844) for all, having obtained eternal redemption" and further in context the writer says, that unlike the earthly High Priest who enter every year to offer sacrifices for the sins of people, Jesus entered in to the heavenly temple once and forever (Hebrews 9:12, 25). Hallelujah!
The writer to the Hebrew continues saying, "...but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared (past tense) to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." (Heb 9:26). So whatever revelation Ellen White has said is directly in opposition to the revealed word of God which is inspired by God Himself (2 Tim 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21), which means she has been deceived to give a private interpretation when the Scripture prohibits it completely and that she has added to the Word of God her own words when she knew that the canon of Scripture has forever been closed in the first century itself by John the apostle (Rev 22:18-19).
SDAs thus teach that Christ transferred the record of believers sins to the heavenly sanctuary, which will be finally cleansed at the conclusion of the Investigative Judgment, their day of atonement.
Mrs. White says in "Patriarchs and Prophets", p. 357, this heresy: "The blood of Christ, while it was to release the repentant sinner from the condemnation of the law, was not to cancel the sin. It would stand on record in the sanctuary until the final atonement."
Hence SDAs sins and its followers sins are not cancelled or forgiven yet. What a worry. No wonder they have no assurance of salvation until the imaginary Investigative Judgment is finished.
These SDA should ask themselves the following question, "If Christ can create the universe in 6 days, why does he take from 1844 until now to investigate the books? Is Christ a slow reader who is not efficient enough to know all the sins of all the people to forgive them? Does he really need to go through it all again to decide who is worthy enough to be forgiven or unworthy when the Scripture has condemned all under sin and how all have lost the glory of God, so that all who believe can be given the righteousness of God (Rom 3:23; 11:32; Gal 3:22)?"
These verses show the Investigative Judgment to be false:
"25 ....In His forbearance GOD HAS PASSED OVER THE SINS [i.e. past, present and future sins] that were previously COMMITTED [i.e. by the influence of the old sin nature (Rom 7:20)], 26 TO DEMONSTRATE AT THE PRESENT TIME HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS [i.e. through the new nature], that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." (Rom 3:25-26).
"THE LORD KNOWS those who are His." (2 Timothy 2:19).
"KNOWN TO GOD from eternity [past] ARE ALL HIS WORKS." (Acts 15:18).
"...I KNOW My sheep, and am KNOWN BY MY OWN." (John 10:14).
"IF WE confess our sins, HE IS FAITHFUL and JUST to FORGIVE us our SINS and to CLEANSE us from ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS." (1 John 1:9).
"...He had by Himself PURGED [i.e. got rid of completely] our SINS, SAT DOWN at the right hand of the Majesty on high." (Hebrews 1:3).
"And you, who ONCE were ALIENATED and ENEMIES in your mind by wicked works, yet NOW HE HAS RECONCILED [(i.e.) made us friends with God]." (Col 1:21).
"...HAVING FORGIVEN you ALL TRESSPASSES [(i.e.) unlawful acts committed in the past, present and future]." (Col 2:13).
Christ's judgments are AFTER he returns, not BEFORE He returns: "When the Son of Man shall come in his glory ... then shall he sit upon the throne of His glory: and before Him shall be gathered all nations." (Matthew 25:31-32). This is the judgment of nations before He establishes God's Theocratic Kingdom on earth for a thousand years, in which all believers and unbelievers will be separated from one another, and the unbelievers sent to hell fire and the believers will be let to populate the earth again for a thousand years time just like in the days of Noah and Lot (Luke 17:27, 29; Matt 25:31-46).
Hebrews 4:13 exposes the SDA limitation on Christ's omniscience: "And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account." This Scripture points out the fact that because Christ knows all the sins of every one, we must give reason to God and also receive the penalty for our behavior from Him AFTER HE RETURNS, one for the believer after the Rapture before his Second Coming to the earth and the other to the earth to rule it with righteousness, who will judge both the saved and the unsaved, (i.e.) the saved to get reward for their works of righteousness after the Rapture of the Church saints (Heb 9:28; Rev 3:11; 22:12), and the unsaved to get condemned for their works of sins after the present heaven and earth are destroyed (Rev 20:13).
Since Jesus knows all cases already, why must He investigate?
6. SATAN AS THE SCAPEGOAT FOR OUR SINS
White says in TGC page 422: "When Christ, by virtue of His own blood, removes the sins of His people from the heavenly sanctuary at the close of His ministration, He will place them upon satan, who, in the execution of the judgment, must bear the final penalty."
Satan, according to SDA's, becomes the scapegoat of Leviticus 16. This lack of clear distinction between the forgiveness of sins at salvation, and the blotting out of sins at some time in the future, makes it impossible for anyone to know, even at death, whether he is saved or not.
SDAs are not allowed to experience assurance of salvation as opposed to the Word of God which says we have the assurance of salvation through the Spirit of God who is given to us at the time of our salvation (Eph 1:13-14; 1 John 4:13; 3:24), because I think she thought that there would be no pressure for them to keep the Old Testament law and Sabbath as reinterpreted by Ellen White, she had taken authority deceitfully and have spoken against even over the apostles and their decree of the 1st century, who along with the Holy Spirit has clearly directed that the Gentile believers around the world not to carry on any yoke which the Jews themselves were not able to carry, but be saved by faith, live by faith and be purified by faith until the coming of our dear Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 15:6-7, 10, 22-29).
Having the sins of all humans laid on satan, assigns to satan an indispensable role in the blotting out of sins and thus nullifies the all-sufficiency of the finished work of Christ. What a deception of Satan the SDA's have come under through Ellen White!
7. ANOTHER GOSPEL
The Investigative Judgment and Scapegoat theories are "another Gospel" that Paul warns us about in Galatians 1:8-9. Paul places a curse on those preaching a false gospel such as SDAs and also those who do not love the Lord Jesus Christ because of deception through false doctrines which they have not watched spiritually enough to avoid and reject them wholly (1 Cor 16:22; Luke 21:36; Rev 2:2, 14-15, 20, 22, 24; 3:4-5, 15-16, 17).
8. THE MARK OF THE BEAST
SDAs believe that Sunday keeping will be the mark of the Beast of Revelation 13:16-18.
White says in TGC, page 449: "But when Sunday observance shall be enforced by law, and the world shall be enlightened concerning the obligation of the true Sabbath, then whoever shall transgress the command of God, to obey a precept which has no higher authority than that of Rome, will thereby honor popery above God. He is paying homage to Rome and to the power which enforces the institution ordained by Rome. He is worshipping the beast and his image. As men then reject the institution which God has declared to be the sign of His authority, and honor in its stead that which Rome has chosen as the token of her supremacy, they will thereby accept the sign of allegiance to Rome--'the mark of the beast.' And it is not until the issue is thus plainly set before the people, and they are brought to choose between the commandments of God and the commandments of men, that those who continue in transgression will receive 'the mark of the beast.'"
This is not rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Tim 2:15). This shows SDAs careless, deceitful handling of Scripture and thus they are under the curse of the book of Revelation in which John the apostle has clearly pronounced a curse for all those who add or take away words to the existing words of prophecy which was given as the revelation of Jesus Christ directly from Him through John the apostle His servant (Rev 22:18-19).
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9. SDA'S ARE VERY CONFUSED ON PROPHECY SUBJECTS
SDAs think that God has finished with Israel. Romans 11:2 and 25 contradict this idea. To SDAs, much of Revelation had been fulfilled by 500 AD. They don't understand Daniel's 70 week prophecy at all (Dan 9:24-27).
Conclusion: Leave the SDA movement today.
Are the SDA - Seventh Day Adventist born again people of God? See I believe that God has a remnant in all the denominational Churches everywhere around the world who believe the Word of God and are born again to love the Lord Jesus Christ and one another (1 Pet 1:22-23; Rom 11:5-6). These remnant believers where ever they are, God will bring them back in to His fold and will make them to be tested through fire to purify them and then keep them close to His heart forever and ever (Rom 9:27; Mic 4:7; Isa 1:9; Zech 13:8; John 10:16, 27; Rom 8:37-39). But when it comes to mingling or marrying someone, where they come from and what they believe is very important as the apostle Paul has clearly told all the believers to take care of the doctrine they believe, so that they can be saved (1 Tim 4:16; 1 Cor 7:39; 2 Cor 6:14; Eph 5:5-7; 1 Cor 5:9-13). The reputation of a believing person and his family will always be unique as they will not value for a empty religion and tradition, but the character of the person whom they are going to marry. As marriage is a holy institution of covenant before God and humans, one spouse for life is the norm of it which should be considered carefully and followed. So one needs to carefully consider everything and ask God for guidance in prayer and through the Word of God to first receive peace from Him, and then to go forward in to marriage.
To the remnant believers of the end time whether they are in SDA, Catholic, Jehovah Witness, or in any other questionable cult that deceives etc..., the clarion call of the Lord to them is, "Come out of her, my people" (Rev 18:4). So follow Jesus Christ through obeying His Word and be led by the Spirit (Eph 5:26; Rom 8:14; Gal 5:16, 18), so that in these end times you can be safe under the shelter of His wings and be Raptured along with the born again Jesus following Church which are everywhere present as a small remnant (Psa 91:1, 14-15; Luke 12:32; Zech 8:6; Rom 9:29). Watch and pray so that you may be delivered from the tribulation which will make inhabitants of the earth to be burned to leave just a few men on earth which Jesus foretold as that which is coming upon the whole earth (Luke 21:34-36; Rev 3:10, 11; Heb 12:14; Isa 24:6).
Your heart is like a garden where Jesus plants His seeds through his sowers who speak His Word and Spirit in to your life. But if you are not careful enough to understand the state of your heart condition and ask God to change it and save from sin, you can become a deceived name sake believer without being born again (John 3:3, 5), and therefore no fruits of godly character or change you will experience in your life because of lack of believing the word of God through faith (John 6:39-40, 44; 5:32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 46; Rev 3:18, 20; Jam 2:26). Salvation is initiated by God, but must be received by humans by a supernatural encounter with God by believing and holding on to His promises to be saved for eternity ahead. Make sure you watch and pray so that Satan doesn’t come and snatch the seed before it grows in to a tree branch after which none can take it away for eternity (John 10:28-29), and instead plant some ugly weeds to deceive you to think yourself as believer when in fact you have not yet become one (Luke 8:11; Matt 13:19-21; 2 Cor 13:5).
Be saved and live saved for eternity! Be married to a believer and live married to your spouse the rest of your earthly life faithfully!
Much Blessings.....
Many SDAs are trying to gain acceptance as part of the orthodox Bible based Christian community, and even want to marry other Christians who are in Evangelical and Pentecostal denominations if they are willing to accept their cultic dogma. Some even disregarding their own belief, want to mix in with the other Christian orthodox culture not knowing whether they themselves are born again, or someone they are looking to marry is born again or not. I would suggest the real born again girls and boys (John 3:5), to understand that they as believers in Christ Jesus should look for only another born again partner as according to the Word of God (2 Cor 6:14), so that they in their married life can bring up a family which will glorify God and be led by the faith that has been passed on to us from our Lord Jesus Christ, apostles and all the men and women of God in between them and us in our generation (1 Tim 4:16; Acts 14:22; Deut 4:9). It is like a Olympic baton with fire that was passed on from Jesus to us in this generation, it should be carried on by each successive generations to keep the faith and reach the heaven's shore according to the promises we have received from God in Christ Jesus (1 Peter 1:8-9; 2 Peter 1:1-4, 16-21; 2 Tim 2:15; 3:14-17; 4:2-4; 1 Tim 4:13, 16; 5:12). However, the following points show that the SDA's do not hold the "the faith which was once for all to delivered to the saints." (Jude 1:3).
These false doctrines of Seventh-day Adventism are a clear warning to people, to not to join up with SDAs, or leave the SDA if they are already involved in it by being a part of it.
1. THE SABBATH
Seventh-day Adventists believe church co-founder Ellen G. White (1827–1915) was inspired by God as a prophet, she claims that on December 25, 1865, that she was shown a extra-biblical revelation that there has been too much slackness in regard to the observance of the Sabbath and therefore from that time onward SDA's insist that we must keep the Sabbath on Saturday as a day of worship. This is wrong because:
a) The New Testament never commands Christians to worship or meet on the Saturday Sabbath, as we all know that the apostles being Jewish were the foremost observers of the Saturday Sabbath before the Church came in to existence, but the only important commandment that is not repeated from the Old Testament is the observance of Sabbath, and God did it intentionally in revealing to them of how the external Sabbath in the Old Testament have become an internal perpetual Sabbath rest for Christians (Heb 3:14; 4:2-3, 5-6, 9-10, 11; Matt 11:28-30). So what is the Sabbath rest for a Christian? Not even keeping Sabbath day as a law on Sunday, but rather it is coming to Jesus by faith to find rest in Him and be pleasing to God apart from keeping the law legalistically from the Book of the Bible from our soul and memory, but rather keep it from the spirit of the human heart in which the Spirit of God writes the same law within and helps us keep it by the righteousness of faith because the work has already been finished from the foundation of the world by Jesus Christ (Heb 4:3; Rev 13:8). Instead, Christians are recorded as meeting on the first day of the week, which is Sunday for fellowship and edification looking towards the Day of Rapture (Heb 10:25), in the following Bible passages:
1. We see in 1 Corinthians 16:1-2 -- Paul the apostle said, "Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: 2 On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come." So we know that from the apostolic days Sunday was the first day and was a holiday for the whole of Roman Empire, and thus offering of the Churches from their gathering was taken on that day.
2. Acts 20:7 -- Paul preached to Christians at Troas whose habit as usual was to meet on the first day of the week which was Sunday, to break bread and have communion on that day of the assembly of saints.
3. John 20:19, 26 -- Jesus, after His resurrection met with the disciples on the first day of the week which was a Sunday.
4. Romans 14:5-6 -- Paul, when discussing which day to meet, did not say that you must meet on the Saturday Sabbath (as SDAs say), or even on Sunday as legalistic Christians say, but he said "Let every man be fully convinced in his own mind [about keeping Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday or Internally all the time]. Whether one observes externally a Sabbath or does not, he observes or does not observe to the Lord." In other words, Paul says whether we observe a Sabbath externally or not, we wholly and internally belong to the Lord who has bought us for Himself through His life, death and resurrection, and therefore by faith and obedience mixed with patience should observe the Sabbath rest on the inside of us all the time (Heb 4:2; 10:36). No one has to teach a Christian believer, what to do and what not to do because the Holy Spirit does it all the time 24/7/365, until the end of their lives on earth (1 John 2:20, 27; John 14:26; Heb 10:15-18; 8:11, 12; Eph 4:32).
5. Colossians 2:16-17 -- "Let no one judge you in ... feast days or Sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come but the reality of its fulfillment is in the body of Christ," who became a substitutional sacrifice on behalf of us before God to forgive us of our sins and thus fulfill the food, drink, feasts days or sabbaths of Old Testament laws and traditions.
SDAs judge Christians wrong who keep the assembly of saints on a Sunday to consider it as a holy day. Paul says that SDAs are wrong to judge Christians for not keeping Saturday as a holy day.
b) SDAs claim that the Roman Catholic church after Constantine in 320 AD changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. This is completely false, because we have at least ten quotes from major church writers from 90 -- 500 AD who all say that the practice of Christians everywhere was to meet on Sunday, not the Jewish Saturday Sabbath. Like we see in this following 90 A.D. DIDACHE which says: "Christian Assembly on the Lord's Day: 1. But every Lord's day do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. 2. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned. 3. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord: In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice; for I am a great King, saith the Lord, and my name is wonderful among the nations." (Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, Chapter XIV). SDAs have no early quotes to show that early Christians met on Saturday and not on Sunday.
2. SOUL SLEEP
SDAs deny that believers on death go to heaven. They say that believers go to soul sleep in the grave until Christ's return. JW's, Christadelphians and other false groups also believe this error. But there are some minute differences between them, while Jehovah's Witnesses teach "soul annihilation," which means when we die, the soul ceases to exist, and the redeemed will have their soul recreated at the future resurrection. Seventh-day Adventists teach true "soul sleep," meaning after death believers are not conscious of anything and their souls become completely inert or lacking the ability or strength to move until the time of the final resurrection of the dead. During this period of soul sleep, the soul resides in the memory of God. While they take out of context verse like Ecclesiastes 9:5 and 12:7 from the Old Testament, to read in to the Scripture what they want it to speak rather than what it really says to defend the doctrine of soul sleep. Thus they come to deny the Scripture that says and affirms that soul and spirit are inseparable, but only through the Word of God which make us conscious of our spirit within which gets born again from heaven above when we are saved, and become God-conscious of the Creator God who watches over us deep in to our soul and spirit, to whom we all have to give account of our life on the judgment day whether we have done good or bad (Heb 4:12-13; Acts 24:14-16, 24-25; 26:20-23, 27-28, 29).
The main verses disproving the soul sleep error are:
1. Philippians 1:23 -- "For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and BE WITH CHRIST, which is far better."
2. 2 Corinthians 5:8 -- "We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be ABSENT FROM THE BODY (i.e. after death) and to BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD." ((i.e.) in heaven).
3. Hebrews 12:1 -- "Therefore we also, since we are SURROUNDED BY so great a CLOUD OF WITNESSES." ((i.e.) The departed believers of the Old Testament time who were discussed in Hebrews 11 were residing in heaven and watching all of us believers of the New Testament who are in the race of faith).
4. Hebrews 12:23 -- "TO THE general assembly and CHURCH of the firstborn who are registered IN HEAVEN, to God the Judge of all, to THE SPIRITS OF JUST MEN made perfect."
5. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 -- "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so GOD WILL BRING WITH HIM THOSE who sleep in Jesus." (This means that if we are believers, when Christ returns to resurrect believer's bodies at the time of Rapture, He will bring with Him all the believers spirits and souls who have already died on earth).
6. Revelation 6:9-10 -- "9 When He opened the fifth seal, I SAW UNDER THE ALTAR (in heaven) THE SOULS OF THOSE who had been SLAIN for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. 10 And THEY CRIED with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”"
7. Isaiah 14:9-10 -- "9“HELL from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; It STIRS UP THE DEAD for you, all the chief ones of the earth; It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 THEY SHALL SPEAK AND SAY TO YOU: ‘ Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us?"
8. Ezekiel 32:21 -- "21 THE STRONG among the mighty SHALL SPEAK TO HIM OUT OF THE MIDST OF HELL with those who help him: ‘They have gone down, they lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’"
9. Ezekiel 32:30-31 -- "THE ZIDONIANS which are gone down with the slain ... PHARAOH SHALL SEE THEM and shall be comforted, even PHARAOH AND ALL HIS ARMY SLAIN BY THE SWORD."
10. Luke 16:19-31 -- The rich man and Lazarus who had died spoke to each other in Hades.
These 9 scriptures show soul sleep of SDAs to be false.
3. CHRIST
Mrs. White said: "Christ took upon His sinless nature our sinful nature. Christ took our nature and it's deteriorating condition." (Q.D. p.654-656).
According to White and SDAs, Christ acquired a sinful nature. This is false. Christ had a sinless human nature and that is the reason Jesus was among sinners and yet without sin (John 8:46; Heb 4:15). In his spirit, he was still God and had never ceased to be the God that He already is, yes, the baby Jesus was born a human, but the Son was given from heaven who resided in that body without the glory of heaven which He left in heaven to become a Son of man, meaning simply a human like any other (Isa 9:6; John 8:58; Php 2:5-8). We must understand that the nature we bear is called "sinful flesh" or more briefly, 'sin' in our soul (Rom. 7:20 and 8:4), and our body of flesh works according to our souls desire after the fall of man (Luke 12:19), the body in itself is a neutral thing which is neither good nor bad, but is a dust suit that we need to live in this earth as humans. Christ took our sin punishment in his body, not our sin nature, that is why the Bible emphasizes that Christ came in the "likeness of sinful flesh" which means exactly like in the form of sinful human with human dust suit over Him (Rom. 8:3-4), that is why as a perfect human before God He was able to offer his sinless soul as a offering to God for the forgiveness of our sins (Isa 53:5, 10; John 19:30).
Even the cult of Christadelphians have done the same mistake of taking that verse "Jesus came in the "likeness" of sinful flesh" (Rom 8:3-4), as that which "He came in sinful flesh". In other words, instead of saying, Jesus became in his body just like the sinful humans made of dust, they have wrongly interpreted it as, Jesus came with the sin nature like that of humans. It is a serious mistake which actually denies the very Divinity and Godhead nature of Jesus and is a heresy and blasphemy that should be avoided and spoken against. Only Satan will try to touch the Godhood of Jesus because he is liar from the beginning and does not stand in the truth of God's word (John 8:44; 1 John 3:8; Gen 3:1-5). So stay away from the cults like SDA and other offshoots like these that deny the Godhood of Jesus.
In what way did Jesus actually carry our sins, read my following post to find the depth of it: http://www.apostolicrevelation.info/2009/07/sit-walk-and-stand-part-3.html#Div1
4. LOSS OF SALVATION
"Now while our Great High Priest is making atonement for us, we should seek to become perfect in Christ." (The Great Controversy, E.G. White, 1911, p. 623).
SDAs teach that though saved by grace (Eph 2:8), we are kept saved by keeping the Law. This is partial atonement. In other words, it means Jesus Christ saves us, but we have to keep ourselves in that saved state with our works or else we might end up in hell fire because of our spiritual lethargy and sluggishness. Therefore, to stay saved according to SDAs, we must continue to keep the Sabbath, the 10 Commandments and pay the tithe. So Grace plus Works saves us ultimately at the end of it all.
This is absolutely against the very salvation and eternal life which is given as a gift of God, so that no human can boast before God (Eph 2:8-9). Some of the Jews who accepted Christ as their Savior, were misled by the same kind of religious Jews of the first century in Galatia, and they were rebuked by apostle Paul who was the one who helped them get saved. Then he asked them saying, "2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? 5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—They that believe are justified 6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham." (Gal 3:2-7).
In other words, the plain reasoning of Paul the apostle was, if you were saved by faith, then you are kept saved by that same faith which God has given to you as a gift. If in case, you get deceived to start to work to keep that salvation intact, all your works does become dead works before God as you are trying to be made perfect by the flesh, even though God has agreed to save you to perfection by His Spirit (Php 1:6). So the works that can be done to get reward for eternity and bring Glory to God now on earth were made to become dead before God because according to God, "to him who works, the wages are nor counted as grace, but as debt." (Rom 4:4), what a waste of time after salvation to work the dead works which has no reward in eternity at all (Heb 6:1), and what a insult to God to indirectly say to Him that though He had saved us through Jesus Christ, but He does not have the strength to complete the salvation which He has started in us who were saved? Paul is saying, salvation is a miracle from the start to the end which happens on the day of Jesus Christ during Rapture, which is worked out by the Spirit of God day in and day out. Paul further does his reasoning to find the truth by asking, 'Did you get saved by the Spirit of God by your works or the hearing of faith? Abraham our father of faith got saved by faith and thus received God's righteousness to live a saved life. Likewise, only if you are saved by faith, you can live righteously with God's righteousness as the sons of Abraham.'
So saints, beware of those who might deceive you from eternal reward by their deception (Col 2:20-23), these 'do's and dont's of the law' are just a shadow in the Old Testament which was revealed by God a little bit to give a hint about what the coming Christ had fulfilled it in His first coming to earth, and who will fulfill it all to the end at the time of His second coming to the earth, but the ultimate substance of all of it is in Christ Himself (Col 2:17). Run away from cultic SDA like wayward group of people who can mislead a true saint by their false doctrine. Praise the Lord!
5. INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT
Investigative judgment means no assurance of salvation. According to SDAs, beginning on October 22, 1844, Christ entered upon the "judgment phase" of His ministry, whereby He blots out sin. The SDA "Investigative Judgment" doctrine rests on Ellen White's claimed revelation that Christ entered the Holy of Holies not at His ascension, but in 1844 (The Great Controversy, p.362-373).
Hebrews 9:12 contradicts White's theory: "Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered (past tense) the Most Holy Place once (not in 1844) for all, having obtained eternal redemption" and further in context the writer says, that unlike the earthly High Priest who enter every year to offer sacrifices for the sins of people, Jesus entered in to the heavenly temple once and forever (Hebrews 9:12, 25). Hallelujah!
The writer to the Hebrew continues saying, "...but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared (past tense) to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." (Heb 9:26). So whatever revelation Ellen White has said is directly in opposition to the revealed word of God which is inspired by God Himself (2 Tim 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21), which means she has been deceived to give a private interpretation when the Scripture prohibits it completely and that she has added to the Word of God her own words when she knew that the canon of Scripture has forever been closed in the first century itself by John the apostle (Rev 22:18-19).
SDAs thus teach that Christ transferred the record of believers sins to the heavenly sanctuary, which will be finally cleansed at the conclusion of the Investigative Judgment, their day of atonement.
Mrs. White says in "Patriarchs and Prophets", p. 357, this heresy: "The blood of Christ, while it was to release the repentant sinner from the condemnation of the law, was not to cancel the sin. It would stand on record in the sanctuary until the final atonement."
Hence SDAs sins and its followers sins are not cancelled or forgiven yet. What a worry. No wonder they have no assurance of salvation until the imaginary Investigative Judgment is finished.
These SDA should ask themselves the following question, "If Christ can create the universe in 6 days, why does he take from 1844 until now to investigate the books? Is Christ a slow reader who is not efficient enough to know all the sins of all the people to forgive them? Does he really need to go through it all again to decide who is worthy enough to be forgiven or unworthy when the Scripture has condemned all under sin and how all have lost the glory of God, so that all who believe can be given the righteousness of God (Rom 3:23; 11:32; Gal 3:22)?"
These verses show the Investigative Judgment to be false:
"25 ....In His forbearance GOD HAS PASSED OVER THE SINS [i.e. past, present and future sins] that were previously COMMITTED [i.e. by the influence of the old sin nature (Rom 7:20)], 26 TO DEMONSTRATE AT THE PRESENT TIME HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS [i.e. through the new nature], that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." (Rom 3:25-26).
"THE LORD KNOWS those who are His." (2 Timothy 2:19).
"KNOWN TO GOD from eternity [past] ARE ALL HIS WORKS." (Acts 15:18).
"...I KNOW My sheep, and am KNOWN BY MY OWN." (John 10:14).
"IF WE confess our sins, HE IS FAITHFUL and JUST to FORGIVE us our SINS and to CLEANSE us from ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS." (1 John 1:9).
"...He had by Himself PURGED [i.e. got rid of completely] our SINS, SAT DOWN at the right hand of the Majesty on high." (Hebrews 1:3).
"And you, who ONCE were ALIENATED and ENEMIES in your mind by wicked works, yet NOW HE HAS RECONCILED [(i.e.) made us friends with God]." (Col 1:21).
"...HAVING FORGIVEN you ALL TRESSPASSES [(i.e.) unlawful acts committed in the past, present and future]." (Col 2:13).
Christ's judgments are AFTER he returns, not BEFORE He returns: "When the Son of Man shall come in his glory ... then shall he sit upon the throne of His glory: and before Him shall be gathered all nations." (Matthew 25:31-32). This is the judgment of nations before He establishes God's Theocratic Kingdom on earth for a thousand years, in which all believers and unbelievers will be separated from one another, and the unbelievers sent to hell fire and the believers will be let to populate the earth again for a thousand years time just like in the days of Noah and Lot (Luke 17:27, 29; Matt 25:31-46).
Hebrews 4:13 exposes the SDA limitation on Christ's omniscience: "And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account." This Scripture points out the fact that because Christ knows all the sins of every one, we must give reason to God and also receive the penalty for our behavior from Him AFTER HE RETURNS, one for the believer after the Rapture before his Second Coming to the earth and the other to the earth to rule it with righteousness, who will judge both the saved and the unsaved, (i.e.) the saved to get reward for their works of righteousness after the Rapture of the Church saints (Heb 9:28; Rev 3:11; 22:12), and the unsaved to get condemned for their works of sins after the present heaven and earth are destroyed (Rev 20:13).
Since Jesus knows all cases already, why must He investigate?
6. SATAN AS THE SCAPEGOAT FOR OUR SINS
White says in TGC page 422: "When Christ, by virtue of His own blood, removes the sins of His people from the heavenly sanctuary at the close of His ministration, He will place them upon satan, who, in the execution of the judgment, must bear the final penalty."
Satan, according to SDA's, becomes the scapegoat of Leviticus 16. This lack of clear distinction between the forgiveness of sins at salvation, and the blotting out of sins at some time in the future, makes it impossible for anyone to know, even at death, whether he is saved or not.
SDAs are not allowed to experience assurance of salvation as opposed to the Word of God which says we have the assurance of salvation through the Spirit of God who is given to us at the time of our salvation (Eph 1:13-14; 1 John 4:13; 3:24), because I think she thought that there would be no pressure for them to keep the Old Testament law and Sabbath as reinterpreted by Ellen White, she had taken authority deceitfully and have spoken against even over the apostles and their decree of the 1st century, who along with the Holy Spirit has clearly directed that the Gentile believers around the world not to carry on any yoke which the Jews themselves were not able to carry, but be saved by faith, live by faith and be purified by faith until the coming of our dear Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 15:6-7, 10, 22-29).
Having the sins of all humans laid on satan, assigns to satan an indispensable role in the blotting out of sins and thus nullifies the all-sufficiency of the finished work of Christ. What a deception of Satan the SDA's have come under through Ellen White!
7. ANOTHER GOSPEL
The Investigative Judgment and Scapegoat theories are "another Gospel" that Paul warns us about in Galatians 1:8-9. Paul places a curse on those preaching a false gospel such as SDAs and also those who do not love the Lord Jesus Christ because of deception through false doctrines which they have not watched spiritually enough to avoid and reject them wholly (1 Cor 16:22; Luke 21:36; Rev 2:2, 14-15, 20, 22, 24; 3:4-5, 15-16, 17).
8. THE MARK OF THE BEAST
SDAs believe that Sunday keeping will be the mark of the Beast of Revelation 13:16-18.
White says in TGC, page 449: "But when Sunday observance shall be enforced by law, and the world shall be enlightened concerning the obligation of the true Sabbath, then whoever shall transgress the command of God, to obey a precept which has no higher authority than that of Rome, will thereby honor popery above God. He is paying homage to Rome and to the power which enforces the institution ordained by Rome. He is worshipping the beast and his image. As men then reject the institution which God has declared to be the sign of His authority, and honor in its stead that which Rome has chosen as the token of her supremacy, they will thereby accept the sign of allegiance to Rome--'the mark of the beast.' And it is not until the issue is thus plainly set before the people, and they are brought to choose between the commandments of God and the commandments of men, that those who continue in transgression will receive 'the mark of the beast.'"
This is not rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Tim 2:15). This shows SDAs careless, deceitful handling of Scripture and thus they are under the curse of the book of Revelation in which John the apostle has clearly pronounced a curse for all those who add or take away words to the existing words of prophecy which was given as the revelation of Jesus Christ directly from Him through John the apostle His servant (Rev 22:18-19).
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9. SDA'S ARE VERY CONFUSED ON PROPHECY SUBJECTS
SDAs think that God has finished with Israel. Romans 11:2 and 25 contradict this idea. To SDAs, much of Revelation had been fulfilled by 500 AD. They don't understand Daniel's 70 week prophecy at all (Dan 9:24-27).
Conclusion: Leave the SDA movement today.
Are the SDA - Seventh Day Adventist born again people of God? See I believe that God has a remnant in all the denominational Churches everywhere around the world who believe the Word of God and are born again to love the Lord Jesus Christ and one another (1 Pet 1:22-23; Rom 11:5-6). These remnant believers where ever they are, God will bring them back in to His fold and will make them to be tested through fire to purify them and then keep them close to His heart forever and ever (Rom 9:27; Mic 4:7; Isa 1:9; Zech 13:8; John 10:16, 27; Rom 8:37-39). But when it comes to mingling or marrying someone, where they come from and what they believe is very important as the apostle Paul has clearly told all the believers to take care of the doctrine they believe, so that they can be saved (1 Tim 4:16; 1 Cor 7:39; 2 Cor 6:14; Eph 5:5-7; 1 Cor 5:9-13). The reputation of a believing person and his family will always be unique as they will not value for a empty religion and tradition, but the character of the person whom they are going to marry. As marriage is a holy institution of covenant before God and humans, one spouse for life is the norm of it which should be considered carefully and followed. So one needs to carefully consider everything and ask God for guidance in prayer and through the Word of God to first receive peace from Him, and then to go forward in to marriage.
To the remnant believers of the end time whether they are in SDA, Catholic, Jehovah Witness, or in any other questionable cult that deceives etc..., the clarion call of the Lord to them is, "Come out of her, my people" (Rev 18:4). So follow Jesus Christ through obeying His Word and be led by the Spirit (Eph 5:26; Rom 8:14; Gal 5:16, 18), so that in these end times you can be safe under the shelter of His wings and be Raptured along with the born again Jesus following Church which are everywhere present as a small remnant (Psa 91:1, 14-15; Luke 12:32; Zech 8:6; Rom 9:29). Watch and pray so that you may be delivered from the tribulation which will make inhabitants of the earth to be burned to leave just a few men on earth which Jesus foretold as that which is coming upon the whole earth (Luke 21:34-36; Rev 3:10, 11; Heb 12:14; Isa 24:6).
Your heart is like a garden where Jesus plants His seeds through his sowers who speak His Word and Spirit in to your life. But if you are not careful enough to understand the state of your heart condition and ask God to change it and save from sin, you can become a deceived name sake believer without being born again (John 3:3, 5), and therefore no fruits of godly character or change you will experience in your life because of lack of believing the word of God through faith (John 6:39-40, 44; 5:32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 46; Rev 3:18, 20; Jam 2:26). Salvation is initiated by God, but must be received by humans by a supernatural encounter with God by believing and holding on to His promises to be saved for eternity ahead. Make sure you watch and pray so that Satan doesn’t come and snatch the seed before it grows in to a tree branch after which none can take it away for eternity (John 10:28-29), and instead plant some ugly weeds to deceive you to think yourself as believer when in fact you have not yet become one (Luke 8:11; Matt 13:19-21; 2 Cor 13:5).
Be saved and live saved for eternity! Be married to a believer and live married to your spouse the rest of your earthly life faithfully!
Much Blessings.....
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